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Tequila
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02 Feb 2007, 5:03 pm

Can anyone recommend me one?

Thanks in advance.



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02 Feb 2007, 5:19 pm

Crossover Office, WINE.



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02 Feb 2007, 5:34 pm

ahayes wrote:
Crossover Office, WINE.


I thought WINE was ONLY for Linux!!



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02 Feb 2007, 5:53 pm

TennisFanatic wrote:
ahayes wrote:
Crossover Office, WINE.


I thought WINE was ONLY for Linux!!


WineHQ wrote:
Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.



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02 Feb 2007, 6:03 pm

ahayes/WineHQ wrote:
Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.

OH... I see! :lol:



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02 Feb 2007, 6:03 pm

Think you have to pay for it. I only really want it so I can use DigiGuide (which, incidentally, is Windows only).